Good morning, Juicers

A few days ago, I was editing a piece I wrote last year that I was particularly proud of only to encounter plenty of overreliance on the verb “was.” Basic descriptions like: “The woman’s voice was shrill” or “…the door was wide open.” Perhaps that explains the mounting rejection letters from the lit mags I had submitted to 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Anywho, if I wanted to rewrite these, I’d turn the quality of the subject into the focus of the sentence and zhuzh it up with a stronger verb.

The woman’s voice was shrill —> The pitch of her voice approximated that of a dog whistle.

Now onto the prompt, in which “was” features prominently lol because irony is a spice of life.

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